Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 29787, John Faulkner, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Faulkner John
S 29 787
CONTENTS

29 787 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29 787
John Hankins Rev Rev
Act: Same In 297
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10.576
Massachusetts
John Faulkner
of Middlesex the State of Mass who was a Pirate in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the regt commanded by Col Robinson the Spas time for 9 Mgs.
Inscribed on the Roll of Spas at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Sept 1833 and sent S N P Abbot Woodford Middlesex Spas
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $60 — Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept " 15 —
575 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S H Blair Clerk, Book 2. Vol. 2 nd Page 24.
72 M rs D r

5565
John Faulkner
Noddlesea Co
Mass.
Plate 9 Mark
1606
Dec 21 1832
$30-
No 13 Abbott
Portmaster
Westford
173.
Noddlesea Co
Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  John Faulkner  of  Spadeley Co  in the State of Mass -  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 17 48 June - 6 - privt Gen. Capt. N. Smith - Col. Robinson   79 Sept - 3 - " Walker  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Spadeley Co  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence, living witness -  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. McBlain Examining Clerk.

John Franklin
No 5565

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this seventeenth day of August in the year of I Samuel Hosmer of Acton in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventy one do testify and say that I am acquainted with John Faulkner of Acton in the County & Commonwealth aforesaid. That in the year AD 1778 said Faulkner enlisted into the service of his country for the term of six months he was stationed at Swanzey a short time from there went to Rhode Island the remainder of the term under the command of Col. Robertson, and Capt Nathan Smith of Shrewsbury in said County, at Ft Eli Convent of Concord Also in the year AD 1779 said Faulkner with myself enlisted for the term of three months marched to Albany from there up the Mohawk river about fifteen or twenty Miles from there to Troy and was dismissed I think commanded by Capt Walker of Wooburn
Samuel Hosmer
Acton August 17 1832
Middlesex ss August 17 1832 Then the above named Samuel Hosmer personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed was true
Before me Francis Little Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Samuel Hosmer is a credable witness and a man of truth & respectability
Francis Little Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honourable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting, John Faulkner a resident of Acton in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, A. D. 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That in the year 1778 he was enlisted for six months, about the last of June as he thinks, and was stationed a part of the time at Tiverton and Little Compton in Rhode Island. The company in which he was marched to several places in Rhode Island to stay for one or two days at a time but the principal service was at those places. He thinks the commander in chief was Sullivan. The Col was Robinson, the Lt Col Jacobs; the christian names he does not recollect. The Capt was Nathan Smith of Shirley in S d County and the first Lieut Eli Conant of Concord. He returned about the first of January 1779 at the expiration of said service being regularly dismissed. In 1779, in September as he thinks, he again voluntarily enlisted for three months in company with Samuel Hosmer, which enlistment was to commence upon his arrival at Albany N Y . The company in which he was never embodied in any regiment until he arrived at Troy N Y , when his company was put into a regiment and immediately dismissed, and he returned home. The above terms of service were in the militia in the U.S. I think the company was commanded by Walker of Housatonic.
John Faulkner
And the said John Faulkner further declares and says that he was born in the year 1762. That there is as he supposes a record of his age in the town books in said Acton. That he was living at said Acton and that he has always lived there with the exception of three or four years that he passed in Littleton in said County. That he volunteered to serve that Sullivan was commander in chief at Rhode Island as before stated. The other officers beside those stated he does not recollect; and that Samuel Hosmer, and Daniel White can testify that he has always had the reputation of being in the Revolutionary service.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state,
John Faulkner
We, Samuel Hosmer  there being no clergyman in said Acton  a clergyman , residing in the said Acton and Daniel White residing in said Acton hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Faulkner who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; — that we believe him to be seventy years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel White Samuel Hosmer
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Daniel White who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman , a resident in 8 o Acton and that Samuel Hosmer who has also signed the same, is resident in 8 o Acton and is  are credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
J. C. P. Day  W. B. B.
Ira Fish
Register of the Court of
Probate in and for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Faulkner for a
pension. I also certify that Francis Tuttle whose own proper signature is set to the certificate annexed is a justice of the peace in & for said county of Middlesex. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on the day and year first aforesaid.
Ira Fish
Acton Dec 28 1832 I James T. Woodbury a clergyman settler in the said town the day of August last in said Acton certify that I believe the said John Faulkner to be seventy years of age and that he is reputed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been in the Revolution as a soldier and that his name is not on the pension roll.
James T. Woodbury
Muddleton p. Dec 28 1832 Then personally appeared the above named James T. Woodbury and made oath that the foregoing certificate by him subscribed is true before me.
Francis Tuttle Just of Peace